Libya has established more than 20 training camps for terrorists where more than 7,000 terrorists from all over the world are receiving training in terror, assassination, subversion and sabotage activities, according to a 43-page booklet on Libya’s connection to international terror, just released by the Israel Defense Force spokesman’s office.
It says that since Muammar Qaddafi seized power in 1969, Libya has given support to almost every terrorist group throughout the world. The booklet is based in part on surveys of media reports throughout the world and on statements by Qaddafi himself and by terrorist organizations.
It details Qaddafi’s attempts to subvert governments and Arab opponents, his offer of money, weapons and training for what he calls national liberation movements around the globe.
The Libyan link goes through Africa and the Middle East to Europe and on to Latin America. It involves Libyan support and help not only for a variety of Palestinian terrorist organizations but also for others, such as the Japanese Red Army, the Italian Red Brigades and the West German Red Army Faction, the IRA in Ireland, the Basque ETA, and various groups in Latin America.
The book claims that Qaddafi also set up his own terrorist group, the Arab Nationalist Youth for the Liberation of Palestine, which carried out some major airline attacks soon after its establishment in the early 1970’s. But little has been heard of this group of late.
CONTACTS BETWEEN QADDAFI AND ABU NIDAL
The IDF review lists a long record of contacts between Qaddafi and Abu Nidal, including talks between the two in Libya last September — contradicting Qaddafi’s own claim that he has not met Abu Nidal for more than a year. Qaddafi is said to have been distributing as much as $100 million a year to terrorist and subversive groups around the world.
At camps in Libya, terrorists and liberation groups receive training for a variety of activities. According to a list in the IDF booklet, Tunisians, Moroccans and Sudanese train at three camps; Africans from Nigeria, Chad and Zaire, among other African countries, are located at two other camps; and Palestinians, Europeans and others are being trained at more than a dozen camps all over Libya.
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